ASPIRES Evidence Brief Series: Employment Support and HIV Outcomes

Existing evidence indicates that employment support, when combined with other economic and health-strengthening interventions, may encourage HIV risk reduction behaviors, increase HIV testing, and improve retention in care. Employment support interventions usually offer some combination of vocational and entrepreneurship training. This brief focuses on technical training, which helps poor households build their economic capacity by developing technical skills required to enter specific trades. Entrepreneurship and business skills for self-employment are the subject of a separate brief.